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ReadingDanger @readingdanger.bsky.social · 9h

I'm on chapter 105. Got most of that done last year when I was in the ER a lot. Likely I'll get back to it again soon after I catch up on some traditional novels after Carl.

Appreciate your recommend from way back when!

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ReadingDanger @readingdanger.bsky.social · 9h

That the ONLY thing "literary" means is that readers will tend to *notice the way the writing is done*, just as "painterly" means that about visual art.

It's not a genre. Nothing to do with merit or longevity of interest. It's when the writing itself stays in the foreground.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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ReadingDanger @readingdanger.bsky.social · 11h

Tomie dePaola

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 22h

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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ReadingDanger @readingdanger.bsky.social · 19h

Very cool!

I love readalikes that identify elements like this.

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ReadingDanger @readingdanger.bsky.social · 1d

Relatedly, public libraries need to be making connections with web fiction. I don't care that it doesn't boost circ stats. It boosts local reading culture.

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ReadingDanger @readingdanger.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all need a Dungeon Crawler Carl readalikes display, stat.

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ReadingDanger @readingdanger.bsky.social · 2d

Not sorry that I'm not running a banned books reading club, as some want.

My only interest is spreading info about opportunities to speak up for freedom to read.

(Also, I don't think ON TYRANNY is useful beyond quoting one sentence. But that's me.)

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ReadingDanger @readingdanger.bsky.social · 2d

I'm surprised when library workers say we'd have too much space if we did something.

I can make use of ANY amount of space to showcase library materials. More space creates more checkouts.

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Anica Mrose Rissi @anicarissi.bsky.social · 4d

Soft censorship not only prevents those existing books from getting into the hands of readers, it also prevents new books from underrepresented writers from being published at all. This isn't about celebrating 1984 and THE CATCHER IN THE RYE.

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ReadingDanger @readingdanger.bsky.social · 5d

Can't sleep. Thinking about everyone's brief, limited existence again.

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ReadingDanger @readingdanger.bsky.social · 5d

There's a lot of bad stuff going on in the world that I can't do much about, but nothing can stop me from Care Bear Staring.

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ReadingDanger @readingdanger.bsky.social · 5d

If anyone needs to hear it from a cis guy:

The worst thing isn't the Democratic Party continuing to lose Federal control.

The worst thing is the Democratic party also turning against human rights in the states and municipalities they do control.

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ReadingDanger @readingdanger.bsky.social · 6d

Kerr, what's worse than Democrats losing a general election is Democrats turning their back on trans people, because that affects every state and municipality that Democrats control.

Loss of Federal rights suck, but people need to be safe somewhere.

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ReadingDanger @readingdanger.bsky.social · 7d

I like this.

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ReadingDanger @readingdanger.bsky.social · 7d

Library workers, what do you like to see most in managers?

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ReadingDanger @readingdanger.bsky.social · 8d

This kind of thing happens EVERY DAY in our tax-funded public libraries!

Empathetic but firm library workers give people chances and people work with us. And it's okay.

Now, have you ever tried to work with a highly privileged person about their challenging behavior in a public space? Hooo buddy!

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ReadingDanger @readingdanger.bsky.social · 8d

Let me tell you a story about homeless people in the library. There was a whole group of them acting odd and spreading items out in the seating area they were occupying. + several rule infractions. So I and another staff member told them what to correct over an hour. And they did. Good day for all.

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ReadingDanger @readingdanger.bsky.social · 8d

Some library workers clearly DO understand that harassment and threats comes along with public service, which is why they're more boldly advocating for public libraries to become private clubs that exclude classes of people.

Consider a non public service job instead.

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ReadingDanger @readingdanger.bsky.social · 8d

Employees aren't failing staff by failing to prevent all harassment/threats from members of the public. What's on employers is how they respond and empower staff to respond.

I have to wonder if some folks never worked retail etc.

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ReadingDanger @readingdanger.bsky.social · 8d

I've been hearing conflation lately of (a) public library workers shouldn't have to tolerate harassment/threats and (b) public library workers shouldn't have to be harassed/threatened.

While both would be great, (b) is unfortunately part of the nature of public service jobs.

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ReadingDanger @readingdanger.bsky.social · 9d

Glad to see Scalzi be challenged and take it to heart.

Good is something we do, not something we are.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 9d

Noted, and acknowledgement that the casual "Old Testament/New Testament" division can carry the freight of antisemitism, which I suspect was not intended either by the original comment (and definitely not by me), but it's okay to say, whoops, let's not do that again

Jessie Stickgold-Sarah @jstickgoldsarah.bsky.social · 9d

Not to disagree with your point about humans, but the Jewish god, a.k.a. the god of the Old Testament, it’s not actually crueler than the Christian god. We literally just finished a holiday that is entirely about mercy and forgiveness.

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ReadingDanger @readingdanger.bsky.social · 9d

It's called literary engagement.

amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · 9d

are swifties okay

patreegs on instagram says

You need to listen to it once completely through while driving a car alone. Then you have to
listen to it indoors lying down. THEN you pick a few and listen to them WHILE you read the lyrics on your computer. You WILL find that you misheard some of the lyrics. DONT panic. Its COMPLETELY normal and healthy. DONT think about taylors life yet and DONT try to make sense of the lyrics and DONT panic if you dont like some of the songs at first bc your brain will LEARN to like them (evolutionary mechanism).
THEN, continue listening on loop as needed but have 2-3 that you sometimes just listen to on repeat. THEN re-emerge into the world and connect with others about their response to the text. THEN apply practically to your life. THEN examine how they fit into taylors. At this point you can start to lightly engage in online discourse if that feels healthy and safe.

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ReadingDanger @readingdanger.bsky.social · 10d

I didn't know he was Jewish until I saw that cartoon with facial features, pose, and vampire theme that screamed antisemitic art. Then checked and yep.

(I know it's a Fuseli painting reference too. Artist should have stuck to that.)

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ReadingDanger @readingdanger.bsky.social · 10d

True, but depicting a Jewish person as a vampire is an antisemitic trope.

Good faith heads-up about that.

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ReadingDanger @readingdanger.bsky.social · 10d

Lookin' sharp

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